This game is HORRIFYINGLY badly constructed. It has so much promise, but it's basically unplayable as it is. If you hit the (completely unexplained) Nexus button you miss out on the starter areas and quests forever. The game auto-names your character, with no explanation on how to change it. The game needs documentation, and has absolutely none. 1/5 until these are fixed.
This game had great potential, but the control lag makes it almost unplayable. Something in the code somewhere is pre-empting movement commands. You need to look at that.
Yeah, I have to concur. You can't give a game with so many rpg elements a limited number of lives. It's a shame you decided to make a good game with a fatal flaw and then ignore the input of the people you made it for. This had potential. 1/5
Aaaaand the limited money stage is apparently completely unbeatable. No matter what you do, the computer instant-spawns huge numbers of troops when you get close to the base. Permanent 1 star. You fail.
Fill The Balloon, Make Him Happy, Blow Out The Candles, and the defusing the bomb one: All impossible without a walkthrough, as there is no way to determine how to do them unless you randomly stumble on the solution. 1 Star 4-ever.